Dirty Tricks

Matthew Whittle (Author)

Global Literature and the Environment

Global Literature and the Environment analyses literatures from across the world that conn

Miguel Ngel Asturias (Author)

Men of Maize

7,A novel whose time has come: the Nobel Prize-winning author of Mr. President's visionary epic of ecological devastation, capitalist exploitation, and Indigenous wisdom, now available again for its 75th anniversary with a new introduction and with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner H?ctor Tobar A Penguin Classic Deep in the mountain forests of Guatemala, a community of Indigenous Mayans--the "men of maize"--serves as stewards to sacred corn crops. When profiteering outsiders encroach on their territory and threaten to abuse the fertile land, they enter a bloody struggle to protect their way of life. Blurring the lines between history and mythology, Nobel Prize winner Miguel ?ngel Asturias's lush, dream-like work offers a prescient warning against the loss of ancestral wisdom and the environmental destruction set in motion by colonial oppression and capitalist greed. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide ...

Sasha-Mae Eccleston (Author)

Epic Events: Classics and the Politics of Time in the United States Since 9/11

An analysis of ancient Greek and Roman works alongside contemporary literature, exploring how the